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Ep. 159 – Practice in Daily Life: Walking the Eightfold Path

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

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The Near Enemy of Love

The world needs someone who understands how not to get caught in these ancient human patterns of prejudice and fear and anger. Recent meditation make people withdraw from the world, one has seen that for sure. There's a fine teaching in the Buddhist tradition of called the Near Enemies. The Near Enemy of Love is attachment. It says I love you, but really I'm attached to you and I need you out there to make me whole rather than just the sense of love. Middle equanimity is when the heart begins to open and we find a capacity to experience all that the world presents with balance, with love, with openness.

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